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I am reading a book series called Warriors, by Erin Hunter. Look, a picture of the cover of the first book found its way in. Let’s have a look at it:

The series is about four clans of cats (I know this seems a bit strange to some, but the whole series is about life from a cat’s point of view) called ThunderClan, WindClan, RiverClan, and ShadowClan. All four clans live in a forest. A house cat named Rusty has had a dream about chasing mice. This causes him to go into the forest. He meets a cat from ThunderClan named Graypaw, who turns out to be his first forest friend. From there, Graypaw invites Rusty into the clan. Rusty gets his new name, Firepaw, and is a loyal member of the clan. All is well, until ShadowClan tries to take some of ThunderClan’s hunting areas. Then ThunderClan has to fight for its territory…

It is a very good story, and so are the rest of the series. There are enemies other than ShadowClan. Twolegs (humans) try to chop down the trees in the forest. (Just like us. Humans chop down trees and don’t think about wildlife. I could write a lot more about protecting the natural enviroment, but it would take up a lot of space on the post, and also I’m getting far off the subject.) Also, house cats (known as kittypets) are not liked much by anyone in any clan. There is another clan called StarClan. The reason I didn’t mention it before is that StarClan isn’t like other clans. StarClan doesn’t live in the forest; it is a bit like heaven in a cat sort of way. All cats go there when they die. Those who have faith in StarClan seem to come around better then those who don’t. This is because of many reasons, so I’ll only tell you a few.

First of all, StarClan can give you strength when you’re weak. On the other paw, StarClan gives the leader of a clan nine lives. (Ever heard someone say that cats have nine lives? In this case it’s true.) Oh, now you’re begging to be a leader. I’m sorry–being a cat is essential. And even if you were a cat, you would have to be made deputy by the current leader (this involves a ceremony) and then you would have to wait for that current leader to lose his/her nine lives, while avoiding the cats that would do so much as to kill you to become deputy. Once the leader dies, you go to the Moonstone (a very holy place) and put your nose on the rock that lies there. Then you would-oh, I can’t tell you the rest. But anyway, StarClan would give you nine lives and the word “star” at the end of your name. It’s against the warrior code (a set of rules given by StarClan) to make someone deputy if they haven’t been a mentor for another cat first. But a deputy has some powers too. A deputy is second in command and is like the leader’s right-paw man. (Or left-paw man. It depends whether the leader is left-pawed or right-pawed.) Are you still sure you want to be leader?

Oh, by the way, about the “star” at the end of names…

Names are very important to the clans.  Cats who are less than six moons (months) old (before they are apprentices) have “kit” at the end of their name.  This makes sense, because young cats are called kits.  For example, a mother could name her kit Stonekit.  The first part of a kit’s name is decided by the mother.  When the kits reach six moons old, they get the word “paw” at the end of their name.  So Stonekit would become Stonepaw.  Cats keep this name until they are made warriors (which means they can have an apprentice, but they aren’t apprentices anymore), when the clan leader (the one with the name “star”) decides what the last part of the name should be.  The most common last parts are “fur”, “pelt”, “stripe”, and “heart”.

I hope you read this series. It is actually science fiction: other than the part about StarClan. Here’s a link to where you can buy the first book. See? Over here!  Also, click here for more information.  So all cat lovers, behold! No offence to the non-cat lovers. They can still read the books and like them!